And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.
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And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it.
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And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.
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And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.
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Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back.
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I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn't reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn't reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career.
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I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter.
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I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views.
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Now you're coming back to Earth, and things are getting more and more dynamic.
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Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space.
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So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.
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So, we have to get up and get pumped up for each day.
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That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.
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There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.
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Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up.
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Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut.
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You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn.
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